27 October, 2025
My Favorite Photo of 2025?
As I write these words it is mid-September, with almost a third of 2025 yet to go, yet I’m nonetheless fairly certain that the image above will turn out to be my favorite ...
20 October, 2025
Pretend Geisha – One Shot Story
This was in 2015, the same year I began the project Nansensu. A local TV celebrity came across my early work. She asked me to make something ‘darker than boudoir’, something pri...
14 October, 2025
One By Four – A One Shot Story Told by Four Photographers
This is my contribution to the “One by Four” series that began with Scott Fergusson’s post four days before this one. You can see Scott’s post here. To r...
10 October, 2025
One By Four – A One Shot Story told by four photographers
First, I’d like to thank my fellow 35mmc contributors David Pauley, David Hume and Dean Lawrence for having the temerity to quadruple down on the idea of a dialogue-driven post ...
30 September, 2025
Photographing An Iconic Location – A One Shot Story
My first camera, a birthday gift from my parents, was a Kodak Brownie Fiesta. All plastic, a simple viewfinder, and it used 127 film. Keep the sun over your shoulder, the Kodak ...
29 September, 2025
One Keeper on the Roll – A One Shot Story
In May of 2021, when we were still under Covid-19 restrictions I, noticed a ripening cone at about eye level in peeking dawn sunlight on a young evergreen in my yard. I had a N...
26 September, 2025
Zip Disks – A One-Shot Public-Service Announcement
Remember these? How long has it been since you stored important files– especially photos– on Zip disks? It’s been three decades for me, since higher-capacity CD-R me...
25 September, 2025
Day Out at The NPG – Part 3 – 85mm Lens – One Shot Story
In Part 1 I relayed a conversation I had had with our Tutor Eddie. On his assertion that no-one shoots with an 85mm lens these days and all portrait photography is shot using wi...
